How to Run a Conference with Benjamin Dunphy

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Benjamin Dunphy about running conferences — what to do, what not to do, and what makes a good online conference in a post-Covid world! Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Guests Benjamin Dunphy Show Notes 03:48 - How do you get started running a conference? 10:05 - Which conferences have you run? 18:05 - How do you get speakers? 23:21 - What about paying speakers? 28:26 - Speaker goody bags? 32:40 - You started your own catering company? 35:32 - How has Coronavirus affected the conference space? 43:06 - Should online conferences try to replicate live conferences? Links Reactathon Jamstackconf Epicodus Meetup Flutter Lifted Plate DevRelCon EventLoop Modern Web Summit @Swizec Sanity Review Changes @tylermcginnis Syntax 250: Scott Teaches Wes Svelte and Sapper ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ben: Serverless Handbook for Frontend Engineers Scott: Tineco Pure One S12 Wes: Chromecast Shameless Plugs Ben: EventLoop Modern Web Summit Scott: Animating Svelte - Sign up for the year and save 50%! Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax.
0:12.4	This is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. Today we've got a guest on for you.
0:18.0	We've got Benjamin Dumpty. He's here to talk to us about running conferences. He's run a whole handful of
0:24.3	different web development and tech conferences in the past. So we're here to talk
0:27.9	about how conferences are run and what's hard about them and all of the stuff that involves in person as well as like now we have
0:36.7	coronavirus so now we have a lot of online conferences what makes a good online conference as well as like the
0:42.0	tech behind running an online conference.
0:45.0	So welcome Ben, thanks for so much for coming on.
0:47.7	Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me.
0:50.1	Yeah, with us as always is Mr Scott Tolinsky.
0:53.1	How you doing today, Scott?
0:54.4	Hey, I'm doing good.
0:56.0	I do want to say at the jump, Ben,
0:58.1	the conferences that I don't understand,
0:59.7	I'm not saying this to just butter Ben up here,
1:01.9	but the conferences that I've been to that Benstone
1:04.1	have been the best conferences so I think we have the best person to talk about this
1:08.2	on because seriously that all of the conferences that, whether it's Reactathon,
1:13.0	whatever, Jam Stat Com, those conferences
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